Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:42:51 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > first thing to know - have you updated your config files with >> > etc-update or dispatch-conf? >> >> I used dispatch-conf, because of the archiving behaviour but I see it >> doesn't really archive all of etc now. > > Have you enabled rcs in the config? This makes it backup the changes, so > you can roll back.
No, I just used it sort of blindly and in many cases choose to `e' edit the new file, where upon I'd read the old file into the new and take what looked like it needed to be taken into the new file. Then save exit and chose `u' (use new). So I guess the result should have been a very manual merging. There were some 128 new conf files. The vast majority I just accepted as is since I'd not done any conf changes on most of them. I was under the conception that the archiving mechanism did a backup of all of etc but apparently that is not the case. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
